End gate



April 1929. w. E. WILLIAMS 1,707;889

END GATE Filed May 26, 1928 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 II I April 2, 1929- w. E. WILLIAMS 1,707,889

END GATE .F le y 26. 1928 2 Sheets-Sheet 3 mwmz V the endgate taken on the line 55, Figure vehicle body being shown in section.

Patented Apr. 2, 192 9.

* UNITED STATES WILLIAM E. WI IiLLlAMS, F HARRISONVILLE, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO J. H. BOWMAN, 0F HARRISONVILLE, MISSOURI.

PA-TENT o FFICE.

OF ONE-FOURTH END GATE.-

Application filed May 26,

This invention relates to an endgate designed primarily for use in connection with vehicle bodies such as used for'hauling grain and the like.

One of the objects is to provide an endgate which can be supported in any one of four positions, namely, closed position, dumping position, scooping position, and in position as a rearward extension ofthe floor of the vehicle body. r

Another object is to provide simple and eflicient means for holding the endgate in any one of the positions mentioned.

WVith'the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed may be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention. 7 r

In the accompanyingdrawings' the preferredform of the invention has been shown.

In said drawings,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the endgate and a portion of the vehicle body, said endgate being shown, by full lines, in position for use as an extension of the bottomjof the vehicle body and, by broken lines, in position for use as a scoop. V

Figure 2 is aside elevation showing the opposite side of; the endgate and adjacent portion of the body, said endgate being shown by full lines in closed position and, by broken lines, in dumping position.

Figure 3 is a rear elevation of the endgate. Figure 4 is a section on line 4-4, Figure 2, said section being throughone side portion of the endgate.

Figure 5 is a section through a 'portion of showing one of the locking bolts in plan.

Figure 6 is a section on line 6-6, Figure 3. Figure 7 is a section on line 77, Figure 2. Figure 8 is a rear elevation of the lower portion of one side of the endga'te while in closed position, the adjacent portion of th Figure 9 is a rear elevation of the'latch disk, adjacent parts being shown and the handle being in dotted lines.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference 1 designates the rear portion of the 1928. Serial No. 280,885.

of the vehicle body near the rear end thereof is securedng flange 10 riveted a plate 8 having a laterally extend- 9. The plate 8 has anangle strip or otherwise fastened to the bottom of its flange 9 and pivotally connected to'the rear portion of this angle strip is a link 11 having a flange 12. The pivot of this link has been shown at 13. The flange 12 of the link 11 is adapted to be normally held against the flange 9 by a bolt 14 as shown by broken lines in Figure 1 and by full lines in Figure 7. The endgate 15 includes the bottom portion 16 reinforced by cross strips 17 and ,is provided with side boards 18 fixed relative to the bottom 16 and spaced apart a suflicient distance to receive between them the rear end of the body 1 when the endgate is in upstanding position as shown in igure2. The outer sides of the side boards 18 are lapped by movable side boards 19 pivotally connected to the side boards 18 at their forward ends as shown at 20. Elongated guide loops 21 are carried by the side boards 18 and are supported at the outer sides thereo fi these loops being parallel with the sides of the boards 18 and constituting guides for the movable side boards 19. In thisconnection attention isdirected to Figure 4ofthe drawsecured to the sides ofthe bottom 16 of the endgate atthat end thereof nearest the bottom of the vehicle body are sleeves Each of these sleeves has a bolt 23 mounted forrotation therein. One .end of the bolt has a radial lug 24 adapted to engage in the recessed or hooked ear 3 as shown in Figures 1 and 2. An arm 25 is extended fromthe other end of the bolt.

Mounted on the cross strip 17 nearest the bottotm of thebody 1 is a bracket 27 having an upwardly extended flange 28 'onwhich a disk 29 is pivotally mounted. Links 26 are pivot-v ally connectedto the disk 29 at diametrically opposed points and to this disk is also connected a suitable handle 30 whereby the disk can be l 'vhen the endgate is in upstanding or closed position the movable side boards complete ly lap the side boards 18. Tongues 33 are extended from the side boards 19' close to their lower ends (while the side boards are in up standing positions as in Figure 2) and each of these tongues has an angular recess 34 adapted to receive the ear 6, the upper end portion of the recess being adapted to receive the bottom portion of theadjaccnt notch or recess 7 in theear (3. The inclined walls of the notches or recesses 7 and 34 cooperate to hold the parts againstrelative swinging movement.

while they are in interfitting relation,

I Links 'are pivotally connected to the re spective movable side boards andeach of these links 35 is connected by an intermediate link 86' to one of the links 11. Each link 35 has one end portion offset as shown at 3? to provide a projecting tongue and the links 36 also have an extending portion 38 formed with laterally extended flange 39. When the endgate is in upstandingor closed position as shown by full lines in Figure 2, the links 35.

will be extended upwardly while the links 36 will be extended rearwardly. At this time the links 11 are held in forwardly extended positions 7 with their flanges 12 v clamped against the flanges 9 of the plates 8. With the several links thus located the links 35 will a flange s 2 provided with a slot 451' oti'set portions 37 of the links tended into the slots 43 in the flanges 42 so that the parts will thus be held positivelythrust rearwardly against the flanges 39 which thus act as a reinforcement for the pivot pins 40 which connect the links 35 and86 this being apparent by referring to Figure V V A latch 11 is pivotally connected to each of the movable side boards 19, each latch having WVhen the linksare located as in Figure 2 the upper 35 will be exagainstrelative movement, 7 V r Under normal conditions the endgate'is mounted as shown in Figure 2 and, obviously, will be held against movement relative to the vehicle body. WVhen it is desired to dump met- "terial' byshifting the endgate to the position indicated by broken linesin Figure 2, the latch 32 is disengaged from the disk 29 and said disk isrotated by means of the handle 30- Thus motion will be transmitted from the disk through the links-25 to the arms .25 and thebolts 23 will be rotated to swing the lugs 2 1 out of the recesses 24: in the ears 3. I

The operation just describeduncouples the bottom 16 andside boards 18 from the vehicle bodyalthough the side boards 19 remain fixed relative thereto because the tongues 33 remain the vehicle body.

in engagement iwith the ears 6. When the parts are thus released the bottom 16 and side boards 18 of the endgate can swing rearwardly about their pivots 20 thereby releasing bull material so it can be delivered downwardly between the bottom of the endgate and the bottom of the vehicle body. Following this operation the endgate can be swung to closed position, disk 29 can be rotated to rotate the bolts and swing the lugs 24: into the recesses 42 and the latch 32 will snap into the notch 31, thereby holding the parts again in the position shown by full lines in Figure 2.

' When it is desired to use the endgate as a scoop the bolts 23 and their lugs 2% are not disturbed. Instead the latches ll are swung upwardly so as to disengage their flanges 42 from the offset ends of the links 35. The end gate is thus free to swing downwardly, the lugs 24 acting as pivots and the tongues 33 on the movable side boards 19 lifting oil of the ears 6 as shown by broken lines in Figure 1. lVhen it is desired to extend the bottom of the endgate rearwardly in the same plane as the bottom ofthe vehicle, as shown by full lines 'in Figure 1, the links 11 are released by de taching the bolts 14:. Said links 11 will then swing rearwardly so as to perm t the endgate to move downwardlyto the full line position shown in F igurel, the inoveinentof the side boards 19 relative to the side boards 18 being limited by the guides 21.

hat is claimed is:

1. The combination with a vehiclebody, of

an endgateincluding pivotally connected fixed and movable side boards, a detachable pivotal connection between the bottom of the cndgate and the bottom of the vehicle body,

a flexible connection between the movable side boards and the vehicle body, cooperating means on the body and the movable side boards for supporting said side boards in upstanding positions :when the endgate is closed, and ineansfor fastening the endgate in upstanding position. 7

2. The combination with a vehiclebody, of an endgate including pivotally connected fixed and inovable'side boards and a bottom connecting the fixed side boards, cooperating means oi -the vehicle body and the movable side boards for supporting the movable side boards, means for holding the movable side boards in upstanding positions, and'cooper- I ating ineans onthe vehicle body and the bottom of the endgate for holding the fixed side boards and the bottom connecting them against movement relative to the body,said supported movable side boards constituting supports for the fixed side boards and the connecting bottom when disengaged y from 3. The combination with a vehicle body, of side boards, separable cooperatingimeans on the body andside boards for detachably supporting said sideboards in upstanding positions, an endgate bottom having side boards fixed relative thereto pivotall connected to and adapted to be supported y the first named side boards, cooperating means upon the vehicle body and the bottom of the endgate for supporting said bottom of the endgate for swinging movement independently of the first named side boards, and flexible means connecting the vehicle body and the first named side boards for controlling the swinging movement of the bottom of the endgate.

4. An end gate including pivotally connected side boards arranged in pairs, a bottom connecting the side boards of'one pair, means for detachably and pivotally connecting said bottom to a vehicle body, and adjustable means for supporting one pair of side boards in upstanding positions fixed relative to the body to support the bottom of the .endgate when detached from the body.

5. The combination with avehicle body, of an endgatepivotallyand detachably connected thereto, side boards pivotally connected at one end .to the endgate, means for supporting the side boards in upstandingpositions at the sides of the body, foldable means connecting the side boards to thebody for supporting the side boards and the end ate in rearwardly extended positions, said i oldable means being adjustable to supportthev endgate at different angles relative to the body, means on the side boards cooperatin with the foldable means for holding sai side boards in upstanding positions to constitute supportsfor the endgate when detached from the body, and means on the endgate forv limiting the swinging movement of the endgate and side boards relative to each other. V

6. The combination with a vehicle body, of an endgate, side boards pivotally connected to the endgate andextending along the sides thereof, means for detachably supporting the side boards from the sides of the vehicle body, a foldable link connection between each side board and one side of the vehicle body, a latch carried by each side board for engagement with one of the links to hold the link against relative movement and maintain the side board in upstandin tive to the body, means for detachably connecting one .end portion of the endgate to the sides of the body for controlling the movement of the endgate relative to the side boards, and means carried b the endgate and cooperating with the side boards for limiting the relative movement of the endgate. I

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto ailixed my signature.

WILLIAM E. WILLIAMS.

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